Unity web player and Chrome Issues

Hi Everyone

First a great congrats to Unity for the release of version 3.0, going to upgrade my existing license very soon , seriously cant wait

Well!
I have a few issues regarding the web player on the Chrome browser for MAC. As far I know that Chrome on Mac did not allow plug-in Processes inside a browser window (http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26235) . Its been the first time I have been testing my games on chrome and it worked but with a few issues:

- 50% drop in frame rate compared to fire fox and safari. Sometime almost unplayable.
- controls don't respond, until you jump to full screen.

I am able to reproduce them while playing the web demos on Unity's website.

Need to know if anyone else has come across these issues or its only me , because I am thinking of informing users about chrome issues in my Html Page for my recent web games , There could be more underlying issues which I might not be aware of,
If this has already been discussed , just re-direct this post.

Thanks

Stephen

here is the link to the build which I have tested
http://www.stephenrebeiro.com/Tram.html

 

I'm having the same problem as you.

- FPS drop
- controls just work in fullscreen mode (but shift and control keys don't).

 

Which version of Mac OSX are you using? We believe this issue to be fixed under 10.6 but with 10.5 there is an issue that prevents that fix from being activated. Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be anything else we can do to sort out the problem under 10.5.

 

Hmm, yes all my tests were done on 10.5, so this is a known issue and only way to get around it is to upgrade to 10.6 ? I dont really know what's the percentage of OS 10.5 users, but with the growing popularity of chrome, Unity should do something about it , or we can just wait for an update/fix from either party

 

I've been seeing the same issues on Windows 7 with Chrome 6.0x. I've narrowed it down to Chrome (http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/62438-Webplayer-mouse-tracking-problem)

1) This is occurring with a project that was created in Unity 2.6 and exported with Unity Pro 3.0 - I haven't tested any other way yet
2) It's a Chrome only problem with framerate stuttering (especially when the Unity IDE is running)
3) It's multiple camera modes / input (always mouse / keyboard) - I'm testing with FPS and orbit cameras
4) When I use the mouse wheel to scroll, input for the mouse point location starts working again

This is not a performance problem - I'm running on a beefy machine and getting great frame rates in every other case except with the Chrome web player (8 gigs memory / i7 CPU, 1 gig nVidia card) etc.

Thanks!
nXain

 

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We have the same problems when using macbooks and Google Chrome. All the users that have tested our game with Macbook + Chrome reported issues too. We had to write that currently chrome isn't supported.

The problems reported are:

1) Wrong Keyboard Input (W switched with Z)
2) Very low FPS
3) The mouse pointer don't get hidden.

Everything work fine when using other browsers (Safari or Firefox).

 

I've neither problem and I'm on chrome 7, osx 10.6.4, macbook pro from spring 2008 (8600M GT)

potentially you are on an ati gpu based mac, in this case congrats, ask apple to fix its drivers

 

Yes the issue was the osx version. We'll write to our users to upgrade or to change browser.

 

I'm having the same problem on a 64 bit PC running Vista. I built a small flight sim in Unity 3 and in the webplayer, the mouse orbit camera seizes up. It simply stops working after a few rotations. This only happens in Chrome. Firefox works fine.

 

For the keyboard input (W switch with Z), it happen for US on a french canadian keyboard (MacOS too). Instead of QWERTY it looks like AZERTY (french keyboard).

Also, sometime, our loading fails and a refresh was needed.

 

Was also on chrome.

 

I have none of thethe problems you mentioned with chrome .

the only problem I have is that when the application is loading and I have no focus on that window then the chrome crashed and must restart the plugin unity.

I have: Windows Vista (Spanish).

 

Have you guys noticed a considerable lag when closing the tab on which the player is running?

I'm just testing my demo on different browsers now and I get this problem on Chrome 8.0.552.224

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium x64, Finnish version.

 

The mouse click lag is also happening for some of our machines.

 

I also have the issue where the shift keys do not work when the webplayer is fullscreen (Chrome, Safari). The issue only appears to occur on Mac it doesn't appear on Windows 7 (Chrome).

 

Hi,

We are experiencing keyboard input not working on our web player build (Unity 3.5.0f5) running under Chrome OSX 17.0963.56 - OSX 10.7.2.

Can select text fields and cursor stops flashing while typing, but no characters appear in text field. Using built-in Unity GUI system.

Chrome 17.0963 Windows works fine.

Same build functions correctly on Firefox and Safari browsers on the same computer.

 

"I'll be your bug report. Baby!"

http://fogbugz.unity3d.com/default.asp?444769_ol9r00odkdvhjknc

Same bug with an attached example case.

 

I have exactly the same issue - OSX 10.6.8 and Chrome 17.0963.79

 

Hi,

I've experienced the same bug, over the past two years with no fix.

This is only noticeable on older machines, with an integrated video card. Tried it on a 3 year old laptop, and a 4 year old pc.

Loading boot camp demo from the unity site in chrome causes chrome to lag in response to clicks, If you clock on another tab in chrome, while the boot camp demo is running, the browser seems to stutter in and out of focus, depending on the specs of the machine, the input will be registered, and the tab will be switched after maybe 5-20 seconds.

The frame rate inside the web player is consistent as this issue with Chrome is happening.

It takes about 5-10 seconds for this issue to become noticeable and it is gradual over that build up time.

I first reported this issue about two years ago. Still happening today. I'm surprised its not one of the focused issues. We have a game up on Facebook that is gfx heavy https://apps.facebook.com/dungeonfighter/ and we are getting many low ratings from I assume people who are used to playing games on their low end machines, having the browser lock up on them and getting upset.

What can I do? Its worrying me that I just can't use Unity for high gfx games on web.

Thanks

 

Just ran into this issue myself on the Mac. Web player in Chrome is laggy as crap, roughly 30% of the framerate when full-screen. Unfortunately input doesn't work in full screen (i just hear error sounds every time I press a key like WASD). OSX 10.7.4, Macbook Air Summer 2012 edition (Intel HD 4000).

 

We are now seeing this behaviour on the web player again (user unable to type text due to plugin losing focus) using latest Unity editor and web player (3.5.4f4)

No text input on latest release of Safari (6.0) on Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). User can input text when in full screen mode.

Bug is also present on Windows 7 using certain versions of Internet Explorer 9, again work around is for user to enable full screen mode.

Off to find more specific info on versions and file a bug report. Anyone else experiencing this? Any suggestions for a javascript work around?

 

Since my post I have done some investigating into the issue.

It seems that some browsers are more prone to causing this behaviour, but if you play on a more low end machine, especially with an integrated gfx card, it happens to all browsers. Even though this issue appears in all browsers, IE seems to be the least effected.

My work around for the bug was to add an auto quality detection script in the client, from the unity wiki. This would force improve the frame rate to a point where if unity looses focus, the browser lags only about 1-2 seconds instead of the 10+ seconds I experienced before the fix.

It is still an issue I wish there was a fix for (hoping flash build will fix this), but for now this is the best I can do. Since the fix, my ratings for my game have gone from non stop 1/5 (people getting outraged with losing browser control) to mostly 5/5's. So it has done something.

 

We are experiencing problems on MacOSX 10.7.5 web plugin on Safari browser.
The mouse scroll wheel doesn't seem to report (not working).

On the same Mac, is working just fine on Chrome and Firefox.

Any idea / fix for this issue ?

 

I have the webplayer stuttering problem. just came across your post. Did you ever find a solution for this?

Its a huge problem preventing me from delivering a game!

Im really stuck on this issue at the moment unity bug report are saying it doesn't stutter when it certainly does for me.

Many thanks for you time,

J

 

I am having an issue with it lagging on macs for Firefox and Chrome but not Safari. IE, Firefox and Chrome work fine on Windows 7.
Update: Strangely, i built the project using Unity on my mac and it helped with the lag for Firefox (but not Chrome). The only difference between mac and PC version of Unity is that the PC version is running the free trial whereas the mac is running standard free version.

 

Same problem in Chrome Version 35.0.1916.114. OSX10.9.3, 3.5Ghz i7 16GB 1600 Mhz DDR3 GTX 775M 2GB.

 

Also seeing this issue in Chrome.

I'm trying to run the Space Shooter demo in webplayer and I lose all input the first time I click with the mouse.

Chrome is 40% of the web and this bug makes webplayer unusable for my project.

 

Is this issue supposed to be fixed? I know I'm 4 years after the thread was started but I have the exact same issue with Version 36.0.1985.143 m of Chrome. My input is simply not registering with the Unity Player. As soon as I go in full screen, then input works.

This makes the WebPlayer essentially useless.

 

Just encountered this issue again.

Any WebPlayer build I create and open in Chrome gets zero keyboard inputs. Mouse is working fine, and I can even see the text Caret in all InputFields if selected, but Keyboard presses does nothing.

Unity version: 4.6.0f3
Chrome: 38.0.2125.104

Is there a fix?

/Andreas

 

Still having this problem here, Unity 4.6.3f1 and Chrome OS X Version 41.0.2272.104 (64-bit). InputFields will have focus when the page first loads, but as soon as I switch to another tab and then back, there is no keyboard input at all until I reload the page.

Is there a plugin or javascript workaround we can use?

UPDATE: Apparently this bug has been reported years ago in Chrome project but has never received much attention https://code.google.com/p/chromium/...easeBlock Cr Status Owner Summary OS Modified